Short answer: no. Long answer: Welcome to server administration! ;) Its definitely inconvenient, but its life.
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:04 -0600, Jay Deiman wrote: > Ok, this is something that has been bothering me for quite a while. Why > is it that Valve is pushing out updates on Friday nights at: > > "Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:32:33 -0800" > > Please, other admins, chime in here unless I'm just crazy. The servers > I host, and once in a while play on, are *always* at their busiest > between Friday afternoon sometime until sometime on Sunday morning (I'm > CDT, for reference). > > Perhaps, unless there is something absolutely critical to fix, these > updates should be pushed out on a Monday morning. That way, if a new > issue crops up, our players can be notified of some *new* issue and any > possible workarounds if there isn't another patch before the weekend, > which, again, is always the busiest time. This Friday night patching is > akin to my rolling out major changes to my email systems at work on > Monday morning around 10am (just before our busiest time of the week). > Is there any way this can be adjusted? > > Jay > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
